booby hut

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Noun[edit]

booby hut (plural booby huts)

  1. (US, dialect, dated) A carriage body put upon sleigh runners.
    • January 5 1835, letter to Charles Matthew
      I induced him on Wednesday to accompany Mrs. Eliot and myself in a "Booby Hut," (for such is called a covered sleigh)
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